KS3 · German · Year 9
Childhood experiences: imperfect plural forms of 'sein' and 'haben'
Past lives and experiences: imperfect modal verbs, perfect tense
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Your learning goal
I can form the imperfect tense plural forms of the verbs 'haben' and 'sein', and use them in the context of childhood experiences.
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I can form the imperfect tense plural forms of the verbs 'haben' and 'sein', and use them in the context of childhood experiences.
Key learning points
- Some sound-symbol correspondences are written differently, but sound the same, e.g., [äu] and [eu].
- Notice verb endings and use surrounding context to help identify the subject of a sentence using a form of 'you'.
- The 'wir', 'sie/Sie' imperfect tense forms of 'haben' are both 'hatten'. For 'sein' they are both 'waren'.
- The 'ihr' imperfect tense form of 'haben' is 'hattet'. For 'sein' it is 'wart'.
- The subject pronoun 'sie' can mean 'she, it' or 'they'. With a capital letter, 'Sie' is formal 'you'.
Words to know
- sound-symbol correspondence
- relationship between letters and their sounds, abbreviated to SSC
- hatten
- 1st and 3rd person plural imperfect tense form of 'haben', meaning 'had'
- hattet
- 2nd person plural imperfect tense form of 'haben', meaning 'had'
- waren
- 1st and 3rd person plural imperfect tense form of 'sein', meaning 'were'
- wart
- 2nd person plural imperfect tense form of 'sein', meaning 'were'
Common mistakes
The subject pronoun 'sie' always means 'she'.
The subject pronoun 'sie' means 'she' when used with a 3rd person singular verb ending or 'they' when used with a 3rd person plural verb ending. If written as 'Sie' and is used with a 3rd person plural verb ending, it can mean 'you (formal)'.
For parents, carers and teachers
- A follow-up homework task could be for students to write a short paragraph about their own childhoods, using 'haben' and 'sein' in the imperfect tense.